Sunday, May 20, 2012

Minding our Mind: Thinking for the glory of God

We are in a series on Sunday morning on Stewardship. Today, we dealt with the command to "love the Lord our God with all our mind" or thinking for the glory of God. Here is a modified outline. If you need more, just let me know.

We began with a quote by David Horner (my pastor in college): "What and how we think has been shaped by the world around us far more than it has been by the Christ within us"

Why does our mind matter to God?

Because of our human make-up

Because of the exhortations in scripture

Because of the way God works in our sanctification

Because of the current religious/spiritual climate in our culture

Because of the deceptiveness of Satan

What does it mean to love the Lord our God with all our mind?

Thinking deeply about God - his purposes, ways, nature, character

Cultivating a biblical worldview - informed by scripture; frame of reference being the bible - thinking Christianly & biblically; evaluating, filtering, & assessing all that we are being fed through the lens of scripture;

“set your hope fully on the grace that will brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” - the gospel; all of it - death, burial, & resurrection of Jesus and its implications; the ground & foundation of godly thinking for the glory of God

Saturating our minds with scripture

Prayer - relying on the HS of truth

Reading books that deepen our understanding of God

Willingness to be stretched, even challenged in “how” we think about things